Feature Request: Hide excerpt

Hello Silas,

When you say “sites excerpt below the site title” do you mean the site description?

If so, this option already exists in “Customizer – Nav Options – Site Description Below Title”.

Or do you mean you want to hide post excerpts on the posts and archive pages?

Please advise.

Thank you,

Oliver

Hi Oliver!

I can set an “excerpt” in the document tab of a site. This is neither a post nor an archived page.
It’s used to generate the “description” for OpenGraph social media previews and is crawled by google instead of the sites actual text. But I want to hide it on the site itself.

I’ve published an excerpt for the homepage of elontime.de for reference.

Best,
Silas

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OK, this is the post (or in this case page) excerpt. Somehow you have activated excerpts for pages (I suspect via another plugin or by editing your functions.php).

For the meantime, you can hide it by using the following CSS in “Customizer – Additional CSS” …

.intro-text {
display: none;
}

Let me know if this helps and I’ll add it as an option in the plugin.

Oliver

That’s a good answer. Thank you. ;-D
Obviously the plugin managing the OpenGraph tags messed with it. Means: As pages are not meant to have excerpts there is no need to care about it on your side IMHO. Maybe its time to create a child theme to take care of the tags myself finally…

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Well, I don’t think I’ve seen a theme show a post excerpt on the single post page (as a sort of description below the title) so I’m pretty sure that this option will be of use because people will probably want to be able to hide it on these pages.

As for creating a child theme … we’d always recommend injecting tags via hooks using a plugin over using child themes. Although child themes allow the parent theme to be updated when updates are released, these updates can then become incompatible with the changes that you have made to your child theme.

Oliver

Actually that’s why I always tried to avoid it. But most of the tags I want to add “require” their own overloaded plugin. Some people even recommend to install YOAST just for inserting OpenGraph tags. ??

So.

It could make sense to add a “Custom Header Tags” section to your plugin where you can manually add tags to the sites header IMHO (e.g. OpenGraph tags to make the Rich Link Preview of Twitter/Facebook/Telegram/etc. work). Like a “+” to add a new key–value pair to the header. I don’t know if it breaks a site if tag key values are invalid. If so you could offer a dropdown list for keys and only allow custom values. ?????♂? I would love to add OpenGraph tags and tags for iOS Smart App Banners without another overloaded plugin. ????

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That’s interesting … but I’m not sure if it’s a theme dependant issue.

Are you saying that there isn’t an easy way to manage these tags yourself (when you know what you are doing)?

If so, we could probably create a new plugin to do what you require.

What tags would you like to see? Would these tags be site wide or per page / post?

Oliver

It’s probably not theme-related. That’s right.

I’ve tried three plugins to insert OpenGraph tags so far. After you made me aware of the issue the third one causes (excerpt), I dowloaded another one… Looks pretty straight forward, that’s good, and works with Twitter and Telegram.

From my perspective each OpenGraph plugin serves a slightly different purpose. Some do offer tags per post/page and even the platform that makes the call for it. Others (like the new one above) are “static” except for posts. But if you don’t want to do any crazy marketing stuff that’s totally fine. I just want my website to easily support state of the art mobile web standards like a RichPreview when the link is shared in social media.

But I will evaluate this plugin first before I call for another one. ??

OK, understood. Let me know if you can’t find an existing plugin to do the job. Always on the lookout for a new plugin ??

Oliver

Just to update this thread we’ve pushed an update tonight that adds an option to hide the excerpts on single posts (and pages if you are in the same situation as Silas).

Oliver